As my colleagues and I prepare for the next step in our research project ‘What’s the “Use” in Higher Education’, focussing on how the contemporary and diverse landscapes of universities conceptualise notions of ‘use’, I continue to be struck by…
The War on Science edited by Lawrence M. Krauss Book cover for Krauss (2025). Taken from the Forum catalogue. Forum, 2025. ISBN: 9781800756182, Hbk. ISBN: 9781800756199, eBook. RRP: £16.39 / £14.99, 304pp. Lawrence Krauss is a distinguished theoretical physicist who…
In recent years, the world has witnessed a surge of advancement and popularization of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. With the publication of several UNESCO (2019; 2021; 2023) documents and a range of studies positioning AI as a key point of…
(Melencolia I, Albrecht Dürer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons) What is to be done except learn all we can about everything we can? Education is a force of civilisation. Through it we have become who we are. Our curiosity and…
One of the most awkward parts of attending conferences, or indeed any work related event, is the requirement to explain what I do. On the train from Sheffield to Oxford for the PESGB annual conference, I was still unsure how…
It was alarming, recently, when attending a conference, to hear, once again, a narrative concerning teachers needing to be ‘courageous’ and ‘selfless role-models’ for others. Language that, whilst seemingly innocuous and aligned with teaching, I argue is damaging and dangerous…
This post is available to download as a PDF here, and is available as an audiofile below: *** Most of us inhabit the world of routines, daily activities filling pockets of time in surprisingly similar ways.… These events…